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ADVANCED TYPE OF WATER-PIPES
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ing motion to the flow of the water so as to prevent the accumulation of
sediment. The smaller end in each case, as is shown in Fig. 173, was
provided with an expanding rim to which the wider end of the next section,
also made thicker, was attached by clay and plaster cement. It appears that
^6*......"........ 70 ........--------->
Elevation of Drain Pipes below Floor in ' Corridor of Dranght-board\
[Measurements in Centimetres.}
->"»"■ ,1 m»«—JIM— ',. "A
Kig. 173. Sections of Terra-cotta Water-pipes, below ' Corridor of Draught- -J
board ': by Theodore Fyfe.
piping of a similar character has been lately re-invented. A smaller clay
water-pipe consisting of socketed tubes was found in connexion with the
oblong chamber North of the Northern Gate passage.
We have seen that in the case of the foot-washing basin of the ' Cara-
vanserai ' the constructor positively revelled in the use of pipes and ducts.1
Here, in the curving- channel of the conduit above—bring-ine the water from
the spring—we find another example of the system described above, and once
more taking us to the epoch of the Great Restoration.2 The basin itself,
besides its inlet duct, has an overflow channel, a supply pipe, carefully set
immediately beneath it to feed a stone trough, and a vent-pipe in one of its
bottom slabs with a stone stopper.
But perhaps the most illuminating record of the modern level attained Jets
by the Minoans at this epoch in their hydrostatic arrangements is to be
1 Ibid., ii, Pt. I, pp. 116-21, and Fig. 57.
2 See loc. cit., p. 116. On p. 119 the
parallel examples of channels with parabolic
curves are referred to ' the early part of the
Late Minoan Age'.
they belong to the
M. M. Ill b.
It is now certain that
post-seismic' phase of
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ing motion to the flow of the water so as to prevent the accumulation of
sediment. The smaller end in each case, as is shown in Fig. 173, was
provided with an expanding rim to which the wider end of the next section,
also made thicker, was attached by clay and plaster cement. It appears that
^6*......"........ 70 ........--------->
Elevation of Drain Pipes below Floor in ' Corridor of Dranght-board\
[Measurements in Centimetres.}
->"»"■ ,1 m»«—JIM— ',. "A
Kig. 173. Sections of Terra-cotta Water-pipes, below ' Corridor of Draught- -J
board ': by Theodore Fyfe.
piping of a similar character has been lately re-invented. A smaller clay
water-pipe consisting of socketed tubes was found in connexion with the
oblong chamber North of the Northern Gate passage.
We have seen that in the case of the foot-washing basin of the ' Cara-
vanserai ' the constructor positively revelled in the use of pipes and ducts.1
Here, in the curving- channel of the conduit above—bring-ine the water from
the spring—we find another example of the system described above, and once
more taking us to the epoch of the Great Restoration.2 The basin itself,
besides its inlet duct, has an overflow channel, a supply pipe, carefully set
immediately beneath it to feed a stone trough, and a vent-pipe in one of its
bottom slabs with a stone stopper.
But perhaps the most illuminating record of the modern level attained Jets
by the Minoans at this epoch in their hydrostatic arrangements is to be
1 Ibid., ii, Pt. I, pp. 116-21, and Fig. 57.
2 See loc. cit., p. 116. On p. 119 the
parallel examples of channels with parabolic
curves are referred to ' the early part of the
Late Minoan Age'.
they belong to the
M. M. Ill b.
It is now certain that
post-seismic' phase of